NationStates Jolt Archive


Investigations into NS Earth

New FunkyMonkeyLand
12-12-2003, 16:38
A state-of-the-art scientific explorer ship slowly orbits an amazingly large planet. It has travelled many light years from Planet Monkey to investigate the phenomena that is NS Earth.

"We have decided that it is time we investigated this planet. NS Earth is one of the largest, if not the largest planet ever documented, yet it has a surface gravity of only 9.81 N/Kg. Another, even stranger phenomenon this planet displays is the continual appearance and disappearance of entire nations. Every day nations are founded, even though it seemed like there was no more room. Every day nations disappear without a trace. NS Earth is one of the greatest anomalies in the known universe.

"We would be grateful to any nations willing to help with these investigations."

~Geoffrey Webber, minister of scientific research
Eris Kallisti
12-12-2003, 16:39
((OOC: LOL I was wondering when -someone- was going to point this fact out *grins*))
12-12-2003, 16:43
There are two possible explanations:

1. NS Earth really is that big, but the the center is hollow.

2. Nations that clam RL regions actually build on top of eachother! There's like 50,000 copies of every RL nation in Earth!
Holy Latin Empire
12-12-2003, 16:48
No, that's wrong. NS Earth is not a planet. It's a time/space abnormality where each nation is a trapped star which randomly DEAT themselves. New stars get sucked in every day.
New FunkyMonkeyLand
12-12-2003, 16:50
OOC: We are tackling this IC, not OOC
IC:

"We have considered the possibility that NS Earth is hollow. However, this is a very strange shape for a planet to be an indicates some very strange and unprecedented phenomena occurring inside. There must be some sort of field that is keeping the planet in the hollow ball shape."
Five Civilized Nations
12-12-2003, 16:57
Another possiblity is that many nations are founded that are not based on NS Earth...
Gaeltach
12-12-2003, 16:59
Or perhaps this planet exhibits the tectonic place phenomenon to an extreme level. As plates collide, new nations are created and destroyed.
New FunkyMonkeyLand
12-12-2003, 17:02
Another possiblity is that many nations are founded that are not based on NS Earth...

OOC:
This is undoubtedly true. However, a very large number are. And given the size of their populations, they either have:

Overcrowding so great that several people occupy the same point in spacetime
Very small people
A phenomenally large planet to live on


For this thread I have assumed the latter
12-12-2003, 17:04
Well, there is one major solution: None of them exist at the same time? Someone can claim to have ancient japan, another can claim modern, another can claim future, and another can take place at an even further point in history
Gaeltach
12-12-2003, 17:07
Well, there is one major solution: None of them exist at the same time? Someone can claim to have ancient japan, another can claim modern, another can claim future, and another can take place at an even further point in history

Yes, but I believe one of the points Minister Webber was trying to make, was that while they may exhibit different levels of evolution and technology, the fact remains that the all exist at the same time in the same place.

...unless you are maybe suggesting that the NS planet somehow incorporates the fourth dimension of time?
Renard
12-12-2003, 17:30
So you're the ones responsible for all our UFO sightings...
12-12-2003, 17:40
This is very interesting.... We will look into this....
12-12-2003, 17:51
Maybe they mature much faster than we do, and their "adult form" flies or something, the children band together to make colonies, but they mature so fast that the colonies get abandoned very soon. This is just a theory. :oops:
Sigma Octavus
12-12-2003, 17:52
There is probably an improbability drive somewhere in this....
12-12-2003, 18:00
NS Earth is a Matter and Holo illusion supporting a game simulation played by superintelligent shades of the color purple. It's as good an explanation as any...
The Evil Overlord
12-12-2003, 18:01
Our scientists speculate that there are approximately as many different seperate pockets of phased spacetime in the localized 4-dimensional phenomenon known as NationStates Earth as there are nations. We have reached this theory after observing the sporadic interactions between nations over time.

Some nations will appear to be completely unaware of other nations supposedly occupying the same segment of phased spacetime for decades. They may or may not suddenly become aware of each other for a period of time, following which they will appear to be unaware of each other again. This had led EOE researchers to postulate the potential existence of n number of phased spacetime segments, where n is a positive integer less than or equal to the number of nations.

Darth Norm
Chief Scientist for Evil Overlord Enterprises